WNYT Story: UREC Has Plans to Expand
From WNYT The Underground Railroad Education Center has plans to expand Jonathan Hunter WNYT Published: February 23, 2023 – 6:02 PM The Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany has plans…
Appendices to What to Do With Phil YALI 2022 Report
Appendices to What to Do With Phil YALI 2022 Report
What To Do with Phil? – A 2022 Report from YALI
What To Do with Phil? – A 2022 Report from the Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Prepared for inclusion in the records of the City of Albany as disposition of the…
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on…
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad
Author/Illustrator: Henry Cole Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2012 A young girl’s courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn,…
River runs deep
Author: Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015 Twelve-year-old Elias has consumption, so he is sent to Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave—the biggest cave in America—where the cool cave vapors are said…
The Underground Abductor: A Graphic Novel
Author/Illustrator: Nathan Hale Publisher: Amulet Books, 2015 This graphic novel, in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series, tells the true story of Araminta Ross, an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After…
Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Michele Wood Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2020 Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.”…
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Kadir Nelson Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2006 In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman’s spiritual journey as she hears the…
Freedom Roads : Searching For the Underground Railroad
Author: Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan Publisher: Cricket Books, 2003. The Underground Railroad was meant to be a set of secret pathways, and its traces have been obscured by time.…